Looks like EastEnders just officially ended its quiet spell. High drama just returned to the popular soap with a shocking cliffhanger that nobody will have seen coming.

The Carter family were just terrorised by balaclava-clad thugs who broke into the Queen Vic out of hours, stealing the charity money that the family had collected during their packed-out ladies' night.

Explosive scenes saw the men storm into the pub brandishing baseball bats and force their way upstairs, demanding to know where the money was.

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Although Mick Carter (Danny Dyer) tried his best to put up a fight, he was no match for the intruders and had to back down after they even snatched baby Ollie and threatened to harm him to prove their point.

Fortunately, Ollie was soon handed back to his distraught family, but they were all severely shaken by their upsetting ordeal. And spare a thought for poor Johnny, who ended up dazed after being attacked when he'd try to intervene.

Vowing revenge after checking that everyone was okay, Mick warned: "I'm going to find out who done this - and I'm gonna kill 'em."

But were the intruders really strangers? We couldn't help but notice that one of the guys looked a lot like Lee Carter's annoying work colleague Oz, who's been making his life a misery at the call centre recently. Oz was conveniently credited at the end of tonight's episode, alongside two of the other call centre workers.

And was it just us, or did Lee not seem too surprised by the whole saga? And why did he pocket that wallet that fell out during the scuffle?